Posted in journalism, true stories, tagged desert tortoises Fort Irwin, war Barstow Mojave desert turtles on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
When my brother was about five years old, I gave him a carved onyx turtle for his birthday. I still have a snapshot of his ear-to-ear grin as he clutched his palm-sized prize. He was so innocently oblivious of the war then raging across the American fabric and the death toll in Vietnam.
Turtles became a [...]
Posted in bloggers, journalism, news business, texas media, tagged Amy Gahran, EMedia Tidbits, Molly Ivins, Poynter on April 28, 2008 | 8 Comments »
So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it.
Lord, let your laughter ring forth.
-Molly Ivins
I am one lucky journo.
So many times in the past 30 years I paused, looked up to the heavens, and thanked the stars that someone was actually paying me to do this fabulous [...]
Posted in Twitter, bloggers, crowdsourcing, journalism, social networking, user generated content, tagged AP, BBC, Forrester, journalism, KPBS, marketing, NBC, New York Times, news, Pistachio, public relations, Smart Mobs, statistics, TED, Tweet, Twitter, Wiki on March 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
What is Twitter?
It is like a microblog, a place to say your piece, or Tweet, in 140 characters or less.
And it is a place to listen.
Unlike my soapbox of a blog, my Twitter home page is actually a waterfall of other people’s words, blended in a real time river from streams around the world. They [...]
Posted in journalism, news business, online news business, tagged alan mutter, Chicago Tribune, Classified Intelligence, Craigslist, Gordon Borrell, help wanted, Hot Jobs, Monster.com, newspaper classifieds, recruitment, Will Rogers on February 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I come from the “follow-the-money” school of journalism, so I’ve written about more than my share of billions over the years. But Alan Mutter took my breath away with his post cataloging the staggering volume of dollars that have fled newspaper help wanted, or so-called “recruitment” ads.
Newspapers have lost more than half of their print [...]
Posted in bloggers, digital journalism, facebook, journalism, news business, online news business, university, user generated content, tagged Epic 2015, facebook, Flickr, Google, Microsoft, Saul Alinksy, student journalists, Twitter, Yahoo on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
The students and I talked current events today in my Web Publishing and Design class, and the chit chat wasn’t about the Super Bowl or Super Duper Tuesday. It was about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo and what that could mean for all of us.
One among them knew that Google’s CEO reportedly called Yahoo’s CEO to [...]
Posted in bush, digital journalism, ethics, journalism, news business, online news business, presidential election, true stories, tagged caucus, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain, KNPR State of Nevada, Mike Huckabee, primary, squirrel, UNLV, UNR on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Some followup notes from my delightful conversation this morning on KNPR’s State of Nevada, with host Dave Berns and his panel of so-called “witty academics.” (The audio with David Damore, Ken Fernandez and me from University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Eric Herzik of University of Nevada, Reno, is here.)
During the show, I mentioned a [...]
Posted in bloggers, digital journalism, journalism, true stories, university, tagged Clark County Housing Authority, digital journalism, Embarq, Kristen Ruby, Las Vegas Sun, Tim Pratt, UNLV, YouTube on January 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
That’s one of my basic rules of journalism, and never has it been so delightfully true as today, when we can not only tell you what someone said, but let you hear how they said it — in their own voice.
One of my students got a very rude awakening last semester thanks to an Embarq [...]
Posted in journalism, news business, online news business, presidential election, tagged ABC video, Barack Obama, Dave Berns, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Tears, KNPR, mochila, Nevada caucus, New Hampshire primary, UNLV, UNR, YouTube on January 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Thanks to the printing press, the mail coach and the steam packet—gifts beyond the gifts of fairies—we can all see and hear what each other are doing, and do and read the same things nearly at the same time.
— Maria Edgeworth, (1767-1849) Irish author
(thanks to Ted Pease and his alert WORDster Louise Montgomery)
So “The [...]
Posted in bloggers, crowdsourcing, journalism, news business, online news business, social networking, true stories, tagged , Aspen Institute, CNN Democratic candidate debate, J.D. Lasica, mobile, moblogging, Roundable on Mobile Media and Civic engagement, SF State, Twitter, UNLV, Utterz on December 13, 2007 | No Comments »
J.D. Lasica has a very interesting post here from a session at the Aspen Institute and San Francisco State University’s Roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement.
He poses the notion of a “posse” of collaborators who could use Twitter to send questions to a reporter who is covering a news event. It sounds like a [...]
Posted in bloggers, facebook, journalism, online news business, texas media, true stories, tagged Dallas Times Herald, designer, facebook, illustrator, Kim Carney, LinkedIn, photographer, Redmond on December 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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Thanks to Facebook and LinkedIn, I’ve been stumbling across a bunch of not-so-old friends, people I haven’t seen in many, many moons.
Many of them have gone on to do wonderful things while I was in another time zone, doing something else.
That’s the case with my friend [...]
